Lithium ion batteries are both an established commercial market as well as a field of constant research and crucial for technological leadership. For example, battery duration is an extremely important selling point with almost any portable or handheld electronic device. Notebook computers, digital cameras, mobile phones, PDAs, mp3-players all rely on lithium ion batteries. Ultimately, powerful batteries are needed in vehicles to supplement or even entirely replace combustion engines.Starting out with an introduction to the fundamentals of lithium ion batteries, this book begins by describing in detail the new materials for all four major uses as cathodes, anodes, separators, and electrolytes. It then goes on to address such critical issues as self-discharge and passivation effects, highlighting lithium ion diffusion and its profound effect on a battery's power density, life cycle and safety issues.
From the contents:
- General Concepts
- Lithium Insertion Materials Having Spinel-Framework Structure for Advanced Batteries
- Overlithiated Li1+x (NizCo1-2zMnz)1-xO2 as Positive Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries
- Iron-Based Rare-Metal-Free Cathodes
- Thermodynamics of Electrode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries
- Raman Investigation of Cathode Materials for Lithium Batteries
- Development of Lithium Ion Batteries: From the View Points of Importance of the Electrolytes
- Inorganic Additives and Electrode Interface
- Characterization of Solid Polymer Electrolytes and Fabrication of All Solid-State Lithium Polymer Secondary Batteries
- Thin Film Metal Oxide Electrodes for Lithium Microbatteries
- Research and Development Work on Advanced Lithium-Ion Batteries for High-Performance Environmental Vehicles
Invaluable reading for materials scientists, electrochemists, physicists, and those working in the automobile and electrotechnical industries, as well as those working in computer hardware and the semiconductor industry.
